This issue resonates powerfully for me, because I haunted my high school library, desperate to find any information to help me understand myself. AS a Baptist teenager, the only thing I had ever learned about homosexuality is that it was perhaps the most terrible sin ever, and that people like me were disgusting.

Pioneering gay-affirming novels (like The Front Runner) and psychology textbooks in my school library helped me decide that what my church leaders were teaching was wrong.

And isn't that the point of libraries? To give people the chance to read and form their own opinions?

If I were growing up today in conservative parts of the U.S., I likely would not have access to diverse points of view in my school library, because Christian activists would have succeeded in removing them from the stacks -- leveraging their private religious views to restrict learning for everyone.